The Best Man Holiday (2.5 stars) — College friends who reunite after 15 years reignite rivalries and romances. R for language, sexual content and brief nudity. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, ROSV, SHOW

Black Nativity — In a holiday musical drama that is a contemporary adaptation of a play by Langston Hughes, a streetwise teen discovers the true meaning of faith, healing, and family. PG for thematic material, language and a menacing situation. Opens the evening of Nov. 26: PALIS. Opens Nov. 27: AMCG, DEST, SHOW, other theaters to be announced

Camille Claudel 1915 — Juliette Binoche plays the French sculptress who was confined to an asylum in her later years. Unrated. TSL (Nov. 22-24 and 29-30 and Dec. 1)

The Christmas Candle (2 stars) — In a country English village in 1890, a progressive minister comes into conflict with an Old World candlemaker and a local legend that promises a miracle every 25 years. PG for mild thematic elements. AMCG, PALIS, ROSV

Delivery Man (2.5 stars) — An underachiever who finds out he fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago must decide whether to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity. PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, some drug material, brief violence and language. AMCG, CHES, DEST, FISH, HUDV, LYCE, ORPH, PALIS, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW

Ender's Game (2 stars) — Years after an alien war, a gifted child is sent to a military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. PG-13 for some violence, sci-fi action and thematic material. PGAL

Free Birds (1.5 stars) — Two turkeys travel back in time to get turkey off the holiday menu. PG for some action/peril and rude humor. AMCG (plus 3-D), CHES, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, MIDD, PGAL (plus 3-D), ROSV, SHOW

Homefront — After a former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content and brief sexuality. Opens the evening of Nov. 26: AMCG, FISH, HUDV, PALIS. Opens Nov. 27: CHES, DEST, other theaters to be announced

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2 stars) — Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem. PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language. AMCG, CALL (Nov. 22-27), CHES, DEST, FISH, HUDV, IMAX, LYCE, MIDD, ORPH, PALIS, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW

I Am Divine — Director Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary on how Harris Glenn Milstead became John Waters' cinematic muse and an international drag icon as the persona Divine. Unrated. DOWN (Nov. 30, Dec. 2)

Last Vegas (2.5 stars) — Three sixty-something friends throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. PG-13 for sexual content and language. AMCG, CHES, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW

Oldboy — Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years without reason. R for strong brutal violence, disturbing images, some graphic sexuality and nudity, and language. Opens the evening of Nov. 26: AMCG, FISH, HUDV, PALIS. Opens Nov. 27: SHOW, other theaters to be announced

Philomena — A journalist helps a woman search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. R for some language. DOWN (Nov. 27, 29, 30, Dec. 1, 3-5), UPST (Nov. 27)

A Touch of Sin — Director Jia Zhangke's drama about four characters and four incidents that actually happened in China in recent years — three murders and one suicide — that offer a portrait of life in contemporary China. Unrated. TSL (Nov. 23)

Twelve Years a Slave (4 stars) — In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. R for violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality. AMCG, DOWN (Nov. 22-24, 26), DEST, HUDV, PGAL, SHOW, UPST (Nov. 22-27)

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